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Beschaffung, Handel und Konsum illegaler Drogen im Strafvollzug - Eine Situationsanalyse -

Filter, Ilona - 2010

Drug consumption is a voluntary decision based on preexisting situational contexts, social events, personal traits and cultural circumstances. Because of this, drug consumption is not pathological but rather normal and ubiquitous. It is only as a result of persecution by the authorities of...

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Rent Seeking in the Cameroon Economy: Krueger's Analytic Technique Helps to Account for Development Lag in Colonial States

DeLorme, Charles D.; Kamerschen, David R.; Mbaku, John M. - 1986

Traditional economic theory regards the social costs of monopoly as the reduction in both consumer and producer surplus as a result of monopolization of certain sectors of the economy. Recent research has shown that a proper accounting of the social costs of monopoly must include the costs of...

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The French Biodiesel Production: An Assessment of the Impacts and Interaction Effects of Policy Instruments

Doumax, Virginie - 2010

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/18/10.

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Environmental external costs from power generation by renewable energies

Braun, Martin - 2004

In the following decades there will be a fundamental structural change in the European power supply system. This structural change is forced by several factors, e.g. the European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme, the strategic goal for the European Union of a more sustainable...

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Eine ökonomische Analyse rechtlicher Regelungen von Verbraucherkrediten

Jozsa, Dan-Paul - 2008

Die Arbeit untersucht das Auftreten von Externen Kosten im Rahmen der Verbraucherverschuldung, sowie die Wirkungen verschiedener rechtlicher Regelungen auf die Arbeitsleistung der Kreditnehmer nach der Kreditaufnahme. Sie konzentriert sich dabei auf drei „Arten“ von externen Kosten:1....

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Long-term effects of eliminating illegal logging on the world forest industries, trade, and inventory.

Li, Ruhong; Buongiorno, J.; Turner, J.A.; Zhu, S.; … - 2008

We assessed the impact on the world forest sector of a progressive elimination of illegal logging. The analysis compared predictions from 2007 to 2020, with and without a gradual reduction of illegally logged industrial roundwood from 2007 to 2011. A large part of the curtailment of timber...

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Time to burn: Modeling wildland arson as an autoregressive crime function.

Prestemon, J.P.; Butry, D.T. - 2005

and poverty on arson, in ways expected from theory. All findings support an economic model of crime. …

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Using the National Information Infrastructure for social science, education, and informed decision making

Tonn, B.E. - 2008

used to address four major social concerns: ensuring economic prosperity; health care; reducing crime and violence; and K …

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Essays on Crime and Tax Evasion

Turner, Sean C - 2010

This dissertation consists of three essays addressing two issues related to crime and tax evasion. The first essay … investigates the relationship between property and violent crime with law enforcement expenditures. The second essay examines the …-making.Chapter one attempts to identify the impact on crime of increasing law enforcement expenditures. We examine the specific channels …

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Essays on crime and search frictions

Engelhardt, Bryan - 2008

a job and/or crime opportunity.Chapter 1 looks at how long it takes for released inmates to find a job, and when they … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … spell of criminals by two months reduces crime and recidivism by more than five percent.Chapter 2 incorporates crime into a …

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